Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"]

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:01:33 -0400
From: "Phil Sieg" <triodelover@comcast.net>
To: Ken Sanford <kanford@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"]
References: <431F3921.7060303@comcast.net> <002401c5b3df$b0294220$6501a8c0@D5FSLZ21>
In-Reply-To: <002401c5b3df$b0294220$6501a8c0@D5FSLZ21>
cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Ken,

It's been changed then, because when I saw it early this AM, it said shipping to the United States with no other country or option listed. Maybe it defaults to the US, since we are the center of the known universe. :-)

-- Phil Sieg Knoxville, Tennessee

Ken Sanford wrote:
> Phil
>
> you mis-read. It says local pickup only. IE - NO shipping.
>
> If I lived in Glasgow, I might take a look.
>
> How do you work a scam on a local pick-up (unless you plan a robbery)?
>
> Ken Sanford
> Kensington, MD
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Sieg" <triodelover@comcast.net>
> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 3:01 PM
> Subject: [Fwd: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"]
>
>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [CR]Minimalist eBay listing: Flying Scot "frame"
>> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:54:14 -0400
>> From: Phil Sieg <triodelover@comcast.net>
>> To: Thomas Adams <thomasthomasa@yahoo.com>
>> References: <20050907184408.24087.qmail@web30501.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
>>
>>
>>
>> Lessee, zero feedback, joined eBay today, picture of a headbadge that
>> could have been cobbled from any website, no sizing info, ships only
>> to the US. Nah, I'm not suspicious.
>> --
>> Phil Sieg
>> Knoxville, Tennessee
>>
>> Thomas Adams wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the minimalist approach to listing a frame on eBay. Seller
>>> writes one brief paragraph and potential buyer knows hardly more
>>> than when he started. This could be a tremendous bargain, or a pig
>>> in a poke. I saw it as "Flying Scot" trips my search monitors, and
>>> at least I got a chuckle out of it.
>>> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>>>
>>> or ebay item 6559572167. Zero feedback seller too. I hope that the
>>> Flying Scot hasn't joined the ranks of Cinelli and Masi as eBay scam
>>> bait.
>>> Tom Adams, Shrewsbury NJ
>>>
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